Historical and architectural complex "Teremok"

18 kilometers south of Smolensk is the former Tenishev estate - Talashkino. Here at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. the famous philanthropist, collector and artist Maria Klavdievna Tenisheva created a kind of art center, which received European fame. In Talashkino worked artists I.E. Repin, M.A. Vrubel, composer I.F. Stravinsky, here was Fyodor Chaliapin.

A whole period in the life of Talashkino is associated with the name of Nicholas Roerich. To this day, one of his best monumental creations has been preserved – a magnificent mosaic “The Savior Not Made with Hands”, made by the artist over the portal of the Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit.

Another of the attractions of Talashkino is the famous fabulous house “Teremok”. This log structure, designed by Sergei Malyutin, is a true masterpiece of Russian small architecture. In "Teremka" you can see the products of Talashkin workshops and, of course, the works of those who brought Talashkino fame - furniture made according to the sketches of S.V. Malyutin, watercolors of M.A. Vrubel, ceramics of N.K. Roerich, painted balalaikas that made a splash at the World Exhibition in Paris. In the building of the former agricultural school, the attention of visitors is presented to the exposition dedicated to the school for peasant children, opened by Princess M.K. Tenisheva in 1894. The exposition includes items of school life, textbooks of the late XIX - early XX century, photographs, lists of students and much more.